Todd C. Miller wrote:
>This can happen when a process opens a file,
>unlinks it, and continues to write to it.
I used to have a small (32MB) mfs for /tmp, until I switched from Firefox
to Chromium. Then suddenly I started having "file system full" errors all
the time, even though my /tmp looked empty. I'm not sure what chromium is
doing in /tmp but it does store there a good number of files which are
immediately unlinked. I ended up just getting rid of the mfs...
(Obviously, whether chromium is the source of the OP's problem or not, I do
not know.)
> $ fstat -f /tmp
$ man fstat
[...]
INUM The inode number of the file. It will be followed by an asterisk
(‘*’) if the inode is unlinked from disk.
[...]
$ fstat -f /tmp | fgrep '*'
meunier chrome 58879 21 / 235858* -rw------- rwp 4
meunier chrome 58879 23 / 237871* -rw------- rwp 1048576
meunier chrome 58879 25 / 237872* -rw------- rwp 65536
meunier chrome 58879 27 / 237158* -rw------- rwp 65536
meunier chrome 58879 28 / 235805* -rw------- rwp 144
meunier chrome 58879 29 / 237213* -rw------- rwp 65536
meunier chrome 58879 30 / 235809* -rw------- rwp 1048576
meunier chrome 58879 31 / 235806* -rw------- rwp 65536
meunier chrome 58879 37 / 237866* -rw------- rwp 144
meunier chrome 65026 26 / 235798* -rw------- rwp 144
meunier chrome 65026 36 / 237208* -rw------- rwp 4198400
meunier chrome 65026 40 / 237695* -rw------- rp 1048576
meunier chrome 42745 21 / 235805* -rw------- rwp 144
meunier chrome 42745 22 / 235809* -rw------- rwp 1048576
meunier chrome 42745 23 / 235806* -rw------- rwp 65536
meunier chrome 42745 24 / 237196* -rw------- rwp 4198400
meunier chrome 15292 22 / 235812* -rw------- rwp 144
meunier chrome 15292 23 / 235823* -rw------- rwp 1048576
meunier chrome 15292 24 / 235837* -rw------- rwp 65536
meunier chrome 12742 21 / 237866* -rw------- rwp 144
meunier chrome 12742 23 / 237871* -rw------- rwp 1048576
meunier chrome 12742 24 / 235829* -rw------- rwp 4198400
meunier chrome 12742 25 / 237872* -rw------- rwp 65536
meunier chrome 61975 35 / 233861* -rw------- rp 131072
meunier chrome 61975 36 / 235858* -rw------- rwp 4
meunier chrome 61975 55 / 234368* -rw------- rp 131060
meunier chrome 61975 59 / 234368* -rw------- rp 131060
meunier chrome 61975 81 / 234451* -rw------- rp 30792
Philippe
